And you blame SE for implementing Hunts?

[Lamentations]

Do you recall in patch 2.0 and 2.1 when Allagan tomestones of Mythology gave us item level 90 gear, which was equivalent to the item level 90 gear from the Binding Coil of Bahamut?

At that time, players were, as you put it, "handed top-tier gear for just grinding out Allagan tomestones."

There was top item level gear found in the coil, and there was top item level gear found outside the coil. If you wanted BiS, you needed a combination of both. I didn't see any of this complaining when casual players could have top level gear then (although it required lots of grinding, like it does for the Hunt), so why is the world coming to an end now?

And the game was probably dead then too, oh wait, she's back, and the game is dead again?

Hardcore Final Fantasy fans, who want to play a Final Fantasy MMO, have two places to go, here or back to XI, they can do what they want, people will probably stay here.

I don't mean anyone insult or malice, but XI was dead in 2006, STO and SWTOR were both dead some time back, and surprisingly im still waiting for any of those to stop breathing.

Hunts are a drunken donnybrook brawl in an 1860's saloon, but they wont be the end of XIV.

Spellbinder gets it.